Jean Helion Quotes

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• A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.
• I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.
• A harmonious combination... enough abstraction that the image is sustained by the eye; enough reality that it is sustained by reason and experience. Share this…
• You don't dream about angles and surfaces and so on. You dream about women, bread, smokes and trees.
• All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms of this ideal…
• Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer when one amputates it from…
• The image gets built one way or another... it doesn't get done by following the natural order of things, but arises instead from an order…
• Paul Klee seems to handle colors and dreams as if they both came out of a box of children's toys. He plays and dreams with…
• Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that... awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it, as though I…
• Art is, from any point of view, the greatest of risks.
• No doubt, in complete abstraction one has a feeling of a great shock, if not an explosion, and in approaching the real, one feels health…

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